Game Changer

[Surpmil]

In those Ukraine war videos it's amazing how often several of the crew make it out after what you'd think was an absolutely fatal hit and explosion.

There's probably no way of preventing ammo cook-offs, short of stowing it in a trailer. Presumably the next US MBT will get an auto-loader like the T-72 and successors have.

The video implied the fourth crewman was the drone operator. The next step will be onboard computers to use the drone feeds to locate and select (even engage?) targets "automatically". Probably the Germans have incorporated something like this here.

According to the president of Raytheon, the USA, and no doubt the UK and other allies also, are providing the Ukrainian forces with real-time battlefield intelligence and target indication, down to the level of individual vehicles, as well as sigint of course. The planes and satellites that provide this intel are not being targeted by the Russians for political reasons, so that is stilting the conclusions to be drawn from the conflict to some extent.

I'd agree that driven road wheels would be a wise step, as per the Christie tanks. More complex and expensive of course, and the driving potential of the wheels would depend on their "treads" and that raises all sorts of problems if tracks are to be used as well. Probably simpler just to go entirely with steel drive/road wheels like the four the French Panhard EBR had.